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Eric Adams calls Brooklyn "American Moscow"

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Eric Adams calls Brooklyn "American Moscow"


20.09.2018

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Russian compatriots living in New York influence the city life as a whole, the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams assures. According to him, the Russian-speaking community has a huge cultural heritage, TASS reports.

Adams calls Brooklyn "American Moscow" because three hundred thousand people who speak Russian live there. They consist slightly less than 50% of Russian-speaking New Yorkers. There are more than seven hundred thousand of Russian-speaking people in total.

Their Influence affects everything from cooking to dancing. Children who study with Russian-speaking students will learn many interesting things. Some of the New York business community also speak Russian.

Adams is convinced that ties in the humanitarian sphere and people's diplomacy are extremely important for strengthening relations between Russia and the United States. To put it mildly, now they are not in the best condition.

State level officials are responsible for foreign policy, he explains. Local authorities have other aims. "As long as we maintain cultural and business ties and contacts between the young people, state policy does not constrained us in any way," he stresses.

The jubilee 20th Russian Press Congress will start work in Brooklyn on the invitation of Adams on September 24.

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